An April 17 Bellator Fighting Championships card, which served as a combined Week 3 and Week 4 event for the organization’s 12-week season, paid out $207,500 to the card’s 22 competitors.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) requested and recently received the list of paydays from the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission.

The event took place at the Lloyd Noble Center on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, Okla.

Like all Bellator events, the show aired on a 24-hour tape delay on the Spanish-language station ESPN Deportes.

The Oklahoma event featured all four opening-round bouts for the organization’s eight-man middleweight tournament and one bout, Dave Menne vs. Norman Paraisy, from the welterweight tournament. The card also featured four non-tournament bouts.

All four middleweight tournament winners (Hector Lombard, Damien Stelly, Jared Hess and Yosmany Cabezas) and Menne earned $25,000 each ($15,000 of which came as a win bonus).

Now, the usual disclaimer: The figures do not include deductions for
items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures
do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a
substantial portion of a fighter’s income. They also do not include any
other “locker room” or special bonuses that some organizations
oftentime pays.

In other words, these are simply base salaries reported to the
commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the
event.

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